OK. MY PC got corrupted somehow. i left it on standby for about 2 hours and it failed to boot up again. I turned it on and off a few times and it said that something was corrupted. So i said **** it and took it to a computer shop where they saved my old files on my 2nd hardrive (160GB) and added XP to it and put the files back. The only problem is that all of my files on the original 250 GB hd are unreachable and whenever i click on the 250 GB HD on my pc it only presents me with the option to format it. Is there anyway i can get the files from the 250 GB HD?

it does do crazy things like manually messing with the MBR etc, but it does have a copy utility.
you can browse the drive, and copy stuff to somewhere else.

so im guessing you can copy from the dead part to the working part.

edit: actually, try this first....
windows cant read it?
i wonder what file system it is: open disk manager, does it say what file format it is?
if not, use a ubuntu live cd or download gparted, boot into either of these and run the disk partitioner program. it will tell you the file format its in

(Original post by bleeper)
they saved my old files on my 2nd hardrive (160GB) and added XP to it and put the files back. The only problem is that all of my files on the original 250 GB hd are unreachable

What files did the shop move from the 250GB to 160GB then? Surly the ones you want have been moved?

ah, i remember teskdisk, its quite confusing at first.
but it appears to have some stuff on there...

the 3rd screenshot has a backup folder, did you create that? doesnt seem to be anything else useful on this partition
on the 4th screenshot, it looks like a windows installation, you have the documents and settings folder where all your stuff should be, for example

(Original post by bleeper)
Yay! Now what can i do to get those files? My friend is walking me through this but the Test disk thing is still running. I think that backup folder was created when my hardrive was last corrupted.